Randyman wrote:Well guys, it looks like the end of the line for Lucky. We'll be taking her to the vet tomorrow and have her put to sleep. I've held out as long as I could but she is in agony. It's become painful watching her suffer. The medication is no longer helping her.
The family is pretty broken up about this. Jeri is taking it hard. She has been a good and loyal dog. Like one of the kids, a family member. We have been spending the day with her. I think she understands. I feel like I'm betraying her but it would be cruel to let her suffer the way she has been.
It wasn't easy coming to this decision.
Randy
Sorry to hear about Lucky, Randy. its tough what you have to do. I might have to do the same for Sandy, my 17 old dog soon....
Randyman wrote:Well guys, it looks like the end of the line for Lucky. We'll be taking her to the vet tomorrow and have her put to sleep. I've held out as long as I could but she is in agony. It's become painful watching her suffer. The medication is no longer helping her.
The family is pretty broken up about this. Jeri is taking it hard. She has been a good and loyal dog. Like one of the kids, a family member. We have been spending the day with her. I think she understands. I feel like I'm betraying her but it would be cruel to let her suffer the way she has been.
Mexico's ageless Juan Manuel Marquez says he wants Manny Pacquiao again after his fine display against Juan Diaz over the weekend in Las Vegas. Marquez, all of 37 later this month, romped to a unanimous decision over the much younger Diaz and has a draw with Pacquiao on his 57-fight record and a split decision defeat so a third showdown looks a natural, although Pacquiao is out on November 13 against Antonio Margarito.
The silky skilled Marquez is out himself on December 11 when he tackles Britain's young, quick but relatively untested Amir Khan, now fighting out of Los Angeles. Khan, 23, wears the WBA light-welterweight belt and arguably the worst beard at world level since the days of Floyd Patterson, but Marquez is more boxer than puncher and a blown-up featherweight and we are likely to get 12 rounds of quality boxing from which both men emerge with credit.
Team Khan has an annoying habit of looking at down for opponents. Marquez is perennially undervalued but fights at lightweight. Michael Katsidis, likely to get the nod for Khan afterwards, also fights at lightweight. Once upon a time you cleaned out your division before you looked around like this but Khan, promoted by Oscar De La Hoya, gets the cotton wool treatment because he was smashed in under a minute by a mediocre Colombian two years ago and because De La Hoya treats boxing as a private club to be enjoyed by his fighters only, which means they all fight each other, regardless of weight. That way De La Hoya gets a cut from both corners, Last time out in May, Khan picked off De La Hoya stooge Paulie Malignaggi for 11 one-sided rounds in New York, a man previously also stopped in 11 in the States by Ricky Hatton, a man with a laughably poor knockout rate.
As for Marquez, he starts slowly and there is a small possibility that the fast-starting Khan could blitz him early, and he also busts up, and we cannot rule out injuries after Khan busted up Marco Antonio Barrera last year in Manchester, but more likely is the close, enjoyable 12-rounder I talked about to save them for another day, for another round of the Partridge Family.
John H. Stracey poses with his wife, an ex-model, in Cardiff over the weekend. John H. was there for the annual WBC Night of Champions, also attended by Duran, Zarate, Barkley and many others.
Frank, i have looked through the 30 first pages of this thread. you should really put all those photos in bookform... like a history of california boxing in pictures Thats quite a collection you got
Rick Farris wrote:Frank . . . Any memories of Johnny Forbes' protege, Mickey Northrup?
Rick, Mickey was another one of Johnny Forbes talented fighters, Forbes was a developer of many great ring talents, it was hard for one to stand out. Mickey was one of those guys that had a hard time breaking away from the pack , and what a pack it was. Mickey fought many top guys, didn't always win, but aways gave 110% of himself. I seen many, many of his fights, when he fought Johnny Gonsalves, Carlos Ortiz, Johnny Malloy, just to name a few fights of his that I seen, the Malloy fight stands out because Rocky Marciano was the ref.
In the '50's and '60's I would run into Mickey quite often around East L.A
Some pictures of Mickey below.
Panzerfaust wrote:Frank, i have looked through the 30 first pages of this thread. you should really put all those photos in bookform... like a history of california boxing in pictures Thats quite a collection you got
Panzer, that would be quite a job, don't know that I'm up to it....
Well. it's done. At about 2:05 pm today Lucky passed away peacefully. She trusted us to do the right thing for her. Years ago, I failed to do the right thing for Pepper and I wasn't going to do make that same mistake again. Jeri is taking it really hard.
She was a good, loyal and faithful companion. The house and the backyard seem very empty now.
Randyman wrote:Well. it's done. At about 2:05 pm today Lucky passed away peacefully. She trusted us to do the right thing for her. Years ago, I failed to do the right thing for Pepper and I wasn't going to do make that same mistake again. Jeri is taking it really hard.
She was a good, loyal and faithful companion. The house and the backyard seem very empty now.
Randyman wrote:Well. it's done. At about 2:05 pm today Lucky passed away peacefully. She trusted us to do the right thing for her. Years ago, I failed to do the right thing for Pepper and I wasn't going to do make that same mistake again. Jeri is taking it really hard.
She was a good, loyal and faithful companion. The house and the backyard seem very empty now.
Randyman wrote:Well. it's done. At about 2:05 pm today Lucky passed away peacefully. She trusted us to do the right thing for her. Years ago, I failed to do the right thing for Pepper and I wasn't going to do make that same mistake again. Jeri is taking it really hard.
She was a good, loyal and faithful companion. The house and the backyard seem very empty now.
Randy
I know just how you all feel Randy we lost our last dog "Harry" about 10 years ago & because of all the heart ache it caused we have only now felt the time was right to start over with another one.we went for the same breed again he's a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel same colour as before "ruby" his name is "Finlay". I'll try to post up a photo when I learn how.
In the meantime try to think of all the good times you had together
My wife and I lost two dogs last year. We had the dogs since we first met. One of the dogs was the reason we got together. I hired her to walk the dog during the day when I was at work. When I asked her to marry me she replied "the dog will be so happy". Losing those dogs was like a passing of our youth.
Rick Farris wrote:Frank . . . Any memories of Johnny Forbes' protege, Mickey Northrup?
Rick, Mickey was another one of Johnny Forbes talented fighters, Forbes was a developer of many great ring talents, it was hard for one to stand out. Mickey was one of those guys that had a hard time breaking away from the pack , and what a pack it was. Mickey fought many top guys, didn't always win, but aways gave 110% of himself. I seen many, many of his fights, when he fought Johnny Gonsalves, Carlos Ortiz, Johnny Malloy, just to name a few fights of his that I seen, the Malloy fight stands out because Rocky Marciano was the ref.
In the '50's and '60's I would run into Mickey quite often around East L.A
Some pictures of Mickey below.
Frank . . . Thanks for the great photos & history on Mickey Northrup. I would like to add the words of Hap Navarro, who recently answered my inquiry on Nortrup:
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Rick:
Looking over Mickey's record you can see that he showed promise from the start when he stayed unbeaten for a short time with us at Hollywood. Later on he was overmatched repeatedly, in my opinion and should not have had to face the caliber of fighters he was matched against. An interesting point is his match against Rudy Jordan, who was also a Johnny Forbes protege. The two boys
were stablemates at one time. Jordan was later managed by Tom Stanley and that is probably when the two kids fought
Not many people today know that Rudy Jordan was at one time managed by Louie Jauregui,
who ran the Teamsters Gym, and Bob De La Fuente, father of former boxer, Orlando De La Fuente....
Not many people today know that Rudy Jordan was at one time managed by Louie Jauregui,
who ran the Teamsters Gym, and Bob De La Fuente, father of former boxer, Orlando De La Fuente....
Now we know. Thanks, Frank.
These little pieces help put together a puzzle.
From Northrup, to Jordan, to . . . whoever?
It helps to get to know the boxers both together, and one-by-one.
Jordan became a championship ref in L.A.
I have good memories of Rudy Jordan, after his ring career was over.
By the way, Frank . . . that United Sporting Goods ad, 9th & Hill Downtown, brings back memories.
More Hap Navarro on Mickey Northrup . . .
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"Rick, I never knew much about Northrup excepting what you already mentioned about his Mexican ties.
He was a tough little guy who took quite a punch in his prime, Stocky, roly poly build but durable and solid.
He fought for me several times and so did Vince Delgado, whom I spoke with at the induction dinner three years ago.
Mickey was not exactly the prototype Forbes fighter, like Teran, Cadilli, Chavez, Delgado, etc. etc."
Thats quite a collection you got
